Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales

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The only exception is the set of short Inuit stories scattered throughout, which have such a distinct and unique voice that their independent heritage is quite obvious. A lot of them are a bit nursery rhyme-ish (especially true of the humorous ones, which often seem to get left out of other such collections), in so far as they tend to reach fairly neat endings that are often pretty close to "happily ever after," and their general logic is pretty . Probably best as a coffee table book for the occasional pickup and journey into the land of the strange. All of the tales center around women, and the stories are organized into little sections, such as 'Clever Women', 'Mothers and Daughters' and of course 'Witches'. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

So many cultures are represented and united in this gorgeous book - and only a few tales were known to me beforehand. While it might be tempting to make sweeping conclusions about what these phrases mean or what they aim to do, the more of the stories you read, the more you come to realise that this simply isn’t possible. After all, one of the most common tropes in this collection is the protagonists solving a problem by asking someone for help, whether that's a family member or a random stranger, and receiving an absurd set of magical instructions to follow. Si te gustan los cuentos de hadas pero quieres una versión más oscura y que te de que pensar (sin el típico final " felices para simepre") lo recomiendo mucho.Angela reivindica, Angela exige con la misma fuerza y determinación con la que trabajó en esta recopilación hasta los últimos días de su vida, ingresada en el hospital.

Y son absurdos, como suelen ser los cuentos, en el sentido de que a un personaje le dicen X y, por extraño que suene, el personaje se lo cree a pies juntillas.I think this is a good book to keep close to bed, in case you don't really feel like reading anything too long or engaging. Every time I read one I get wistful for the day when we will have proper phylogenetic trees to give these stories context. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.